Festa

[Alessandro Cucchi, editor]

Festa

Rome, Italy: NERO, 2013

92 pp., 7.8 x 11 cm., softcover

Edition of 1000

"Twenty-five years after his death, NERO re-publishes the artist’s last interview, conducted by Aldo Ricci and originally featured in Frigidaire magazine. The book also collects new interviews and anecdotes about the life of a major protagonist of the Italian art world of the 60s and 70s. The book is a biting monologue in which all of Festa’s artistic frustrations and human frailties erupt into a cynical interpretation of the present and a prophetic vision of the future. In these short texts, the artist’s outspoken Romanness reacts to the cultural and political flatness of the Italian 80s, defining a new identity that also stands as an affirmation of delirium, of the fantastic and of that most human element that serves man to overcome his own specific and genetic conditions: that is, to overcome himself. "

- publisher’s blurb